The David "Mastcell" Gorski dump thread

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The David "Mastcell" Gorski dump thread

Post by ericbarbour » Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:18 am

In case you had not noticed, Gorski's blog is now a "fixture" of the almost-forgotten blog world. He's been running it since 2006 and has always been an angry leftist thereon. (It became independent of scienceblogs.com in October 2017, and his claim at the time that Science Blogs was "shutting down" turned out to be bullshit. Personally I suspect he was fighting with the operators of Science Blogs and was told to fuck off. Some parts of SB are still being updated, albeit very infrequently.)

But in the past few years his blog has gotten more popular than ever. And developed a "fan following". Who are weirdly arguing with each other in the comments. It appears as if Gorski took most of the Science Blogs readership with him; maybe he was the #1 "draw" for that site. As usual he is ready to attack anyone else for "cause" yet remains unwilling to be truthful about his own activities.

His rant about the Centners was not inaccurate. Leila Centner is long-notorious in the Miami business world for her very extreme-nutty New Age beliefs. How these two people became successful and wealthy enough to start an exclusive private school is a true mystery (apparently they bought out a failing school just to get their hands on the buildings, staff, and enrollment). They are also co-producers of that notorious anti-vaxx "racism documentary" along with one Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Wikipedia paid very little attention to Kennedy, until 2016, when he became notorious for opposing vaccines. THEN his article started to explode in length. The Centners probably qualify for articles themselves, but no one creates them. Would be quickly AFDed anyway. Director David Massey's bio says nothing about his involvement in the docu. The usual "selective amnesia" of Wikipedia.

But back to Gorski's blog; go to the Centner article, scroll down, and read the very lengthy comment section. His followers sqabble, at length. They accuse Gorski and each other of "racism" and "white privilege". They do everything other than talk about the Centners. It is the essential mystery of David Gorski: he stands up for science and against medical quackery. Yet he often talks like one of the quacks he hates -- with the rage of a thousand burning suns.

And his fanclub, aagh. He's not a "crusader", he's a shit magnet with a blog. And a pulpit.

Remember that the bespectacled bunghole is one of the most powerful administrators on Wikipedia. And still denies it. The big shit magnet attracts all the little shit magnets. He loves the attention.

(Ask him about Mathsci, one of his "favorite Wikipedians"!)

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Re: The David "Mastcell" Gorski dump thread

Post by Pisto » Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:25 pm

David Gorski has addressed the claims that he is MastCell in Twitter:
https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1183792050325426176

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Re: The David "Mastcell" Gorski dump thread

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:19 am

Pisto wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:25 pm
David Gorski has addressed the claims that he is MastCell in Twitter:
https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1183792050325426176
He's still the same raging liar as ever. There is too much evidence of his bullshit on en-WP. Too many coincidences. They have exactly the same friends, exactly the same foes, the same interest in chemotherapy drugs, the same petty ego.

Calling his critics "anti-vaxers" or "supporters of quacks" is really pathetic. Gorski has a talent for making enemies, which he also shares with MastCell.

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Re: The David "Mastcell" Gorski dump thread

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:43 am

oops....

https://twitter.com/SteveDaveChris1/sta ... 8690035721

Gorski doesn't get it. Twitter is not a "reliable source". And neither is he.

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